The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-08-11

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from West Point. Briefly, the cadet
gets up at 6 o'clock, and from that
hour until about s a. m. there are the
inspection of rooms, guard-mount and
breakfast. What they get to eat will
perhaps be of interest. 8
For breakfast they get beefsteak,
mutton chops, hominy, biscuits, light
bread, coffee, Or tea, and milk adj hb-
atum. For dinner the bill of fare is
roast beef, mutton, light bread, corn
bread, vegetables of all kinds in their
season, and dessert. At supper they
get hot rolls, butter, cold beef and
coffee, or tea and milk. Il These are nc
holiday meals. Everybody gets plenty
to eat. .a .oay-:s -
The mess hall is a fine, large, roomy
apartment well and neatly kept, and
attached to it are the pantry and
kitchen, in which latter there is a
range big enough to have cooked a
meal for the army of Xerxes. The
beef eaten is raised on the place, the
milk and butter are produced here
and all the vegetables. Being all from
a model farm, they are of a model
quantity and quality.
HOW THEY WORK.
Breakfast being concluded, at 8 a.
m. the boys file off into their various
class rooms in the academic depart
ments, where they are kept busy until
IL am. Then the theoretical recita-
tons are over for the day. After a
short rest they take off-or "shuck +"
their uniforms and, accompanied by
their professors and cadet captains Of
squads, they 60 off into the vegetable
garden, the various parts of the farm,
to the creamery, to the pastures, &C.,
to study farming in the fields. They
do almost everything except plough
ing and driving teams. If it be the
spring-time, they are preparing ground
for the seed, and then they plant the
seed later on and cultivate the crop
until the crops are laid by. Some of
them are out in the orchards; some of
them are among the turnips and peas
and squashes and tomatoes, and some
Of them are at the dairy where they
are found to make somewhat dry-look-
ing but very effective milk-maids. If
it be the winter time they are doing
thing work, terracing, general repair
ing work to houses, barns and fences.
The keeping up the fences is an i'm
portant matter, there being about
twenty-six miles in length to look after
and they live in a stock law county.
The average time of the boy/in out
door work is from 2l.2 to$ hours,
for which, as stated, he receives six
cents per hour.
H TIME FOR STUDY.
When he comes in from the field he
does his studying, for Which he has
ample time until 10 O'Clock at night,
when he must blow out his light and
90 to sleep at once.
In reply to the question whether
the field work did not make them too
"tired" to study, the great majority
of the students said that it did not.
The question, indeed, Was received
with a smile which was wen calculated
to make hard-worked people, like
newspaper tourists, feel badly AS
a matter Of fact, they have plenty Of
time to spend in the library, which con-
tains about 1000 volumes, mostly
practical works, and many of the
State newspapers and leading journals
of the Union. There are in the library
numbers of volumes enabling the stu
dents to pursue scientific research and
books of reference generally. The
reading of romantic literature is dis
couraged generally, although Bulwer's
novels appeared on the shelves. More
books are needed badly, and the trus-
tees are asking for an appropriation
of $1,000 for that purpose.
The students have all day Saturday
for themselves. In the way of literary
entertainment they have, organized
two debating societies. There is also
a Young Mems Christian Association.
One Of the societies (the D~ialectic)
publishes a monthly journal.
In the foregoing manner the stu
dent is engaged from the first Wed
nesday in October until the first We'd
nesday in July. They have a short
ronoco Of ohos,f Ton lows Of rb~c4~o,